Obama to Push for Infrastructure Spending
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"It's hard to find anyone who thinks President Barack Obama's series of heavily promoted economic speeches will be the flash point that unclogs the system in Washington '" including the president," the AP writes. "A day after he kicked off the tour in Illinois and Missouri, Obama was traveling Thursday to a seaport in Jacksonville, Fla., to yet again deride the wide gulf between his vision for a new American prosperity driven by a burgeoning middle class and the intense gridlock snarling up Congress."
Said Obama: "Here's the thing: It will be a pretty good speech. But as we've learned, I've given some pretty good speeches before and then things still get stuck here in Washington. … Which is why I'm going to need your help."
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Apparently this is all just talk because it doesn't take anyone 4 years to start shovelling.